The Literary Review of Canada

Upcoming LRC Events

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May 2012

MOLLY PEACOCK LUNCH + LEARN

May 31, 2012
12:00 - 1:30 pm
The Gardiner Museum
111 Queen's Park, Toronto

Join us for an intimate Lunch + Learn session with Molly Peacock, author of the best-selling The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72. In 1772, upon her second husband’s death, Mary Delany arose from her grief, picked up a pair of scissors and, at the age of seventy-two, invented a new art form, mixed-media collage. Over the next decade, Mrs. Delany created an astonishing 985 botanically correct, breathtaking cut-paper flowers, now housed in the British Museum. Peacock, a noted poet and memoirist, will share these floral images, connecting them to objects within the Gardiner collection, and discuss how the witty, talented, profound Delany took her craft into art.

$25 - Includes a bag lunch by Jamie Kennedy Kitchens.

Presented by the LRC in partnership with the Gardiner Museum. Please register online.

June 2012

JOHN FRASER LUNCH + LEARN

June 27, 2012
12:00 - 1:30 pm
The Gardiner Museum
111 Queen's Park, Toronto

Join us for an intimate Lunch + Learn session with award-winning journalist and royal authority John Fraser, author of The Secret of the Crown: Canada's Affair with Royalty. This artful and witty book offers a fascinating look into the enduring allure of the monarchy in Canada, following the Crown's evolution from the Age of Deference to its present popular revival, with the marriage of William and Kate. Fraser explores the media's insatiable appetite for the Royal Family as the Queen celebrates her Diamond Jubilee, Prince Charles awaits his turn at the throne and a new generation of Royals carry the Crown into the future.

$25 - Includes a bag lunch by Jamie Kennedy Kitchens.

Presented by the LRC in partnership with the Gardiner Museum. Please register online.

July 2012

CHRISTINE SISMONDO LUNCH + LEARN

July 17, 2012
12:00 - 1:30 pm
The Gardiner Museum
111 Queen's Park, Toronto

Join us for an intimate Lunch + Learn session with Christine Sismondo, author of America Walks into a Bar. This rich and fascinating history of an institution often reviled, yet always central to American life, traces the tavern from England to New England, showing how even the Puritans valued "a good Beere." Fast-paced narration and lively characters carry the story through the twentieth century and beyond, from repeated struggles over licensing and Sunday liquor sales, from the Whiskey Rebellion to the temperance movement, from Quebec’s rum running to single shot sales at the Canadian border, from attempts to ban "treating" to Prohibition. Sismondo’s agile prose and telling anecdotes offer a resounding toast to taprooms, taverns, saloons, speakeasies, and the local hangout where everybody knows your name.

$25 - Includes a bag lunch by Jamie Kennedy Kitchens.

Presented by the LRC in partnership with the Gardiner Museum. Registration not yet open.